Al-Battani, De scientia astrorum

Title

Al-Battani, De scientia astrorum

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 40

Associated place

Udine

Venice

Morone del Sannio, Campobasso province

Abruzzo

Place of origin

Italy

Date

s. xv ex./1500

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper. Each quire is a regular group of five sheets folded in folio, in the main (fifty sheets total), of one paper-stock: A Waage/Balance: very like Piccard Type V, nos. 50, 58, 60 (1496 × 1498, Austria); cf. also nos. 22–31 (northern Italy 1487 × 1502), but here with two circles above the balance and on the chain (not between chains) ; B Chapeau: probably Briquet, no. 3402 (Venice and Udine, 1499), appearing on only the five sheets of quire 9 (fols. 81–90).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 110(numbered fols. 1–109, iv) + i (numbered fol. v).

Hands

Written in humanistica cursiva. Punctuation by point only.

Decoration

Headings, not all filled, in red.

Two-line red roman capitals at chapter heads (6-line for the prologue), parts of opening lines in capitals, sometimes in red.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, three paper flyleaves, the first modern, the second two the same paper-stock as the book (and fol. iiibounded in stylus, like the text leaves); at the rear, one modern paper flyleaf (v). The front fly-leaves have rust stains from nails fixing clasps or straps in an earlier binding.

Provenance

The old shelfmark ‘N.5’ ( fol. ivv, s. xvi or xvii).

‘Liber Guilielmi LaudArchiepiscopi Cant et Cancellarij Vniuersitatis Oxon 1638’ ( fol. 1, lower margin).